The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 65
Next day they a’ set out for the King’s Court, and a gallant company they made.
Who acts: prisoners · What happens: set out, make · To what, where: ’, gallant company
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoners), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ’ | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ’ | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ’ | det |
| 5 | ’ | ' | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ’ | acl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 set | compound:prt |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 Court | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Court | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 King | case |
| 12 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 company | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 company | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 company | det |
| 16 | gallant | gallant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 company | compound |
| 17 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ’ | conj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 company | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle | a ’ and a gallant company not said here | for the King's Court | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | prisoners = prisoner | a gallant company not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset company=Product |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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